History Series / PowerRangersTimeForce

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->''"Time for Time Force!"''
->''"Quantum Power!"''

** One of the main leitmotifs sounds amazingly like the main theme of ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

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** The trailer teases a show in which the Rangers will be hopping from one era to another in pursuit of bad guys. The actual show had about seven episodes out of forty were time travel occurred.

* {{Recycled IN SPACE}}!: Power Rangers [[AC:as [[TimePolice TIME POLICE]]!]]

* LighterAndSofter: Yes, Somehow. Despite being one of the darkest season of Power rangers until RPM, It's still not as dark as Timerangers. At least [[spoiler: Alex is not the BigBad and him, Mr Collins and Eric, the Quantum Ranger are SparedByAdaptation and are all nicer than their sentai counterpart. Ransik also makes a HeelFaceTurn and Wes is able to visits and talks with the others time force rangers as we can see with the crossover with wild force

** As well as Ransik's MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and "I'm ready to pay for what I've done." It's probably the best performance Vernon Wells as ever turned in.

* TriangRelations

** For the men, Jen's miniskirt, and a training scene in "Jen's Revenge" where she works out her frustration wearing jogging pants and an [[BareYourMidriff athletic top]].

And while the acting in ''Power Rangers'' has never been any more than serviceable, the performances from the two leads Jason Faunt and Creator/ErinCahill (as well as several others) were actually quite strong. The darker nature of the season helps to highlight that talent with themes of lost loved ones, prejudice, revenge, new love and redemption. This is also one of only two ''Power Rangers'' seasons, to date, to be nominated for an Emmy (the other being the second season of ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'').[[note]][[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256278/awards Granted, it was for sound editing]], but still...a nomination is a nomination.[[/note]]

''Time Force'' is well-loved and quite popular among fans, and is often regarded as one of the best seasons. Excellent performances, mature themes, a dynamic story, and unique relationships among the main characters (particular Wes and Eric) are all cited as strong points.

Taking responsibility for the fact that they got away on her watch, a {{heartbroken|Badass}} Jen collects the morphers and her squad, and journeys a thousand years into the past to avenge her fiance. Unfortunately, Alex's DNA is needed to unlock the morphers, but there just so happens to be an ancestor of him living in Silver Hills, [[WordOfGod Washington]] at the turn of the millennium. What are the odds?

Taking responsibility for the fact that they got away on her watch, a brokenhearted Jen collects the morphers and her squad, and journeys a thousand years into the past to avenge her fiance. Unfortunately, Alex's DNA is needed to unlock the morphers, but there just so happens to be an ancestor of him living in Silver Hills, [[WordOfGod Washington]] at the turn of the millennium. What are the odds?

** Wes started out as a BrilliantButLazy, NiceGuy, ShelteredAristocrat, of a RookieRedRanger who was a kind of spoiled, by the end of the series he's grown into TheHero and an excellent leader

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Quantasaurus Rex Zord, in an otherwise futuristic season.

** And the BigBad and his [[TheDragon Dragon of a]] [[BrattyTeenageDaughter daughter]] '''both''' have [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] and are full-fledged good guys in the team-up next season.

* WeaponOfChoice:
** FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Chrono Blaster
** CoolSword: Chrono Sabers, which can be used as a [[BifurcatedWeapon pair of two]] or [[DoubleWeapon a single double-ended sword]]; a Chrono Saber with extra equipment locked on turns it into the Electro Booster.
** {{BFG}}: The V-weapons, which combine into the even bigger Vortex Blaster.
** SwissArmyWeapon: Eric's Quantum Defender

** CoolSword: Chrono Sabers, which can be used as a [[BifurcatedWeapon pair of two]] or [[DoubleWeapon a single double-ended sword]]; a Chrono Saber with extra equipment locked on turns it into the [[CoolGuns/{{Rifles}} Electro Booster]].

* MindReformatDeath: Strongly implied that [[spoiler:Dr. Ferricks/Frax]] met his end this way. When he's captured by Ransik for his separate mecha, [[spoiler:Frax]], while verbally hostile at first, desperately convinces [[spoiler:Nadira]] to not give-in to hate and break the chain caused by Ransik, as he's carried off to be experimented on. Later, [[spoiler:Nadira]] enters the laboratory he's being held in, but when she tries to continue their conversation, "he" only responds with [[spoiler:a robotic error message, and all trace of Dr. Ferricks'/Frax's essence seems to have been erased forever.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Frax [reprogrammed, monotone]:]]''' '''[[spoiler:[[MachineMonotone I AM A FULLY AUTOMATED MECHANICAL ROBOT.]]]]''' I HAVE NO INFORMATION ON BEING HUMAN.

--->'''[[spoiler:Frax [reprogrammed, monotone]:]]''' '''[[spoiler:[[MachineMonotone I AM A FULLY AUTOMATED MECHANICAL ROBOT.]]]]''' I HAVE NO INFORMATION ON BEING HUMAN.

** When Jen was [[TrappedInTVLand caught in a]] {{Wuxia}} movie, she had a qipao and OdangoHair. Sounds like stock Chinese stuff, but then she gets into a one-on-one fight. [[StreetFighter Who else do we know that's famous for fighting with that appearance?]]

* CompressedAdaptation: Was given 40 episodes to ''Timeranger's'' 50. This included an original single-episode team-up with ''Lightspeed Rescue''.[[note]]''[[Film/MiraiSentaiTimerangerVsGoGoFive Timeranger vs. GoGoFive]]'' was a direct-to-video supplement to the series[[/note]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Eric, Mr. Collins, and Alex. All of them are much nicer and heroic people ([[CharacterDevelopment ultimately]]) than their Sentai counterparts, who were varying levels of unpleasant and stayed that way[[note]]Naoto never really lost his unscrupulous opportunism, Wataru Asami remained a callous, greedy patrician, and Captain Ryuuya was [[spoiler: the BigBad who manipulated everything to defy his predestined death]][[/note]]. As a result, [[spoiler: all of them get to live, and while Alex loses Jen's love, the other two enjoy KarmicJackpot as a result of their preexisting standards and CharacterDevelopment]].

* AlmostKiss: [[spoiler: Jen and Wes]] share one in "Lovestruck Rangers." They of course immediately encounter a MomentKiller.

* LastVillainStand: After his MechaMooks have been taken down, Nadira has abandoned him, Gluto has pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere, and Frax has been destroyed, Ransik pulls this trope and inverted it since he managed to defeat the rangers one by one. [[spoiler: He only surrendered when he hurt Nadira]].

** The trailer states that "five special Rangers" are sent back in time to capture an escaped criminal mastermind. In the show, the original Red Ranger Alex is [[spoiler: supposedly]] killed in action and the other four Rangers - who were ''fired'' for failing to stop Ransik's escape in the first place - steal the [[TransformationTrinket morphers]] and hijack a ship to travel to the past after Ransik. In doing so, they meet and recruit a new Red Ranger who is Alex's ancestor.

* NiceGuy: Wes is very friendly and the reason he wanted to be the Red Ranger in the first place was out of a desire to help the other Time Rangers. Trip is also a very kind and trusting person. Sometimes this can be an issue the villains take advantage of ("Short-Circuited") but other times it can help a great deal like in "Trip Takes A Stand" and "The End of Time" part which [[spoiler: kicks of Nadira's HeelFaceTurn]].

* RobotBuddy: Circuit. [[spoiler: Dr. Ferriks originally designed the Cyclobots to be these for human and mutant alike, before Ransik [[TheFarmerAndTheViper repaid his kindness with treachery]] and made them into his shock troops.]]

* WasOnceAMan: The tragic case of [[spoiler: Frax. He was once human, but was forced to rebuild himself as a robotic being after Ransik fatally injured him]].

* CompressedAdaptation: Was given 40 episodes to ''Timeranger's'' 50. This included an original single-episode team-up with ''Lightspeed Rescue''[[note]]''[[Film/MiraiSentaiTimerangerVsGoGoFive Timeranger vs. GoGoFive]]'' was a direct-to-video supplement to the series[[/note]].

Easily one of the darkest seasons of ''Power Rangers'', it takes a lot from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart (despite seasons of ''PR'' that do so normally being disliked, such as ''Wild Force'' and ''Samurai'', this season is a rare exception). Of particular note is being the first Power Rangers series to [[AvertedTrope actually acknowledge]] [[NeverSayDie the death of a character]], [[spoiler: though Alex gets better towards the end of the series]]. Also of note is the fact that the leader of the team is the Pink Ranger, ActionGirl Jen (although because of the source footage Red is still in the forefront, with him and the SixthRanger getting nearly every LimitBreak and SuperMode through the season).

''Power Rangers Time Force'' is the ninth season of the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series, adapted from ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger''. In the year 3000, crime is almost a memory, as a police organization called Time Force has captured almost every criminal. The only one left is a villainous mutant named Ransik. Time Force Red Ranger Alex and his squad finally manage to capture him, and Alex takes the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend and subordinate, Jen Scotts. Before they can fully realize their dreams of wedded bliss, however, Ransik's spoiled daughter, Nadira, breaks him out and Alex is apparently killed in the crossfire. Ransik and Nadira go on to take all the cryogenically frozen mutants from prison and hightail it back to the year 2001, before there even was a Time Force to stop them.

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction / HeroesRUs: The Time Force Police
* GracefulLoser: Ransik, though he was actually ''winning'' before giving up.
** Which may have something to do with why he was so graceful.

** This is a result of PragmaticAdaptation - originally the writers planned to do at least ''some'' time travel arcs, using Sentai footage in remote woods like they'd used to represent alien worlds in [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace season six]]... then they realized that [[CityOfAdventure all]] the Megazord fights were in modern Tokyo. Every. ''Single. '''One'''.''